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Uh, are you me? My HTML book was a different one, but I definitely had the pokemon[1] thing. All in elementary school. Who knew it would end up being my care

by d23 13y ago

Uh, are you me? My HTML book was a different one, but I definitely had the pokemon[1] thing. All in elementary school. Who knew it would end up being my career? [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070515090557/http://www.maxpages.com/1Pokeland https://web.archive.org/web/20070515090557/http://www.maxpag...

pvnick 13y ago
I very well could be, considering one of my first experiments was on maxpages also, but I can't remember the name unfortunately (pikachu something?). I remember how ultra-competitive it was to get people to upvote your website so it would get to the maxpages front page and that at one point all the front page links were pokemon websites.
- kanzure 13y ago
  I wonder if there's a safe way an insider from maxpages, coolfreewhatever, trident, geocities, etc. could provide this data maybe by email address without violating the privacy of everyone ever? I have the exact same story, including the hilarious pokemon websites from 2000-2003. Can't remember any of the urls. I don't need backups, just the urls.
aspensmonster 13y ago
http://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Own-Page---Kids/dp/0843174595/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1393364708&sr=8-2&keywords=how+to+make+your+own+webpage+for+kids http://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Own-Page---Kids/dp/084317459... 1998. Hell, I think I still have this book laying around somewhere. I got it at a book fair in elementary school and from then on out I was always making one stupid webpage or another. Until I discovered Java of course.
- tracker1 13y ago
  I feel old now.. in 1998, I was 24 and had been working as a web developer for a couple of years. I'd moved on from any thoughts of Netscape server-side dev, and was doing VBScript and JScript in classic ASP. JS was my favorite language back then, though dealing with MS COM collections was a pain. I remember using the 1x1 graphic a lot, combined with complex tables, and even other stuff. Of course, even before CSS, you could do a lot and at first I really didn't get the point of CSS... I think that IE6, not IE4 was the first good browser. Yeah, it was despised a half a decade later, but at the time it was the best available. IMHO the Netscape 4.0.x-4.2.x was probably the most horrible ever in terms of bugginess and imho solely responsible for IE's dominance. What we have today, even without the likes of jQuery is SO much better than the mid-late 90's.
  - pjmlp 13y ago
    Same here, I was 22 and finishing my CS degree with lots of experience on side projects and ready to jump into the golden .COM days. Still after all these years, the scars earned in web development projects, make me jump of joy when I get to do native desktop stuff instead.
    - tracker1 13y ago
      That's funny, I actually really like web development... when it comes down to it, it's all hacking, only now you get better levels of abstraction. It's not nearly as bad as the bad old days so to speak, and a lot of things can be very clean and elegant.
      - pjmlp 13y ago
        I think one reason for me, is that I am way much better doing pure graphics coding for customs components, than trying to make a component out of <div/> coupled with CSS/JavaScript magic.
  - HillRat 13y ago
    God, I started out with Perl-based CGI, NetObjects Fusion, and ATG Dynamo's early JSP implementation, back when being able to afford a SQL backend meant you were hot stuff. Kids today have it so easy. We had to code ISAPI filters, during packet storms, for bidirectional communication! And don't get me started on what we had to do when the bit buckets ran out of ones....
    - nasalgoat 13y ago
      I wrote an Atari 2600 cartridge auction/trading site in perl that was so popular, it caused my company's webserver - a large national ISP! - to slow to a crawl running all the CGI. This was pre-ebay, about 1995. Wish I had stuck with it in retrospect: ebay started very similarly.
- mrspandex 13y ago
  I still lend this book out to friends who want to learn HTML.
tfigueroa 13y ago
My thing was Dragon Ball Z sites. CGI/Perl running NewsPro, links to questionable RealMedia content. What a sucker I was! Good thing PHP came along and taught us all what true webmastery is.
- georgiecasey 13y ago
  with all the hate php gets now, people forget how it changed the game back at the turn if the century. it was so easy.
alttab 13y ago
Worms 2, tripod.com, paint shop pro. Can't stop me. SSI changed my life, and I coded a 50 page website in a textarea. on 28.8. In the snow. Without shoes. Not much has changed. I use vim now.

by d23 13y ago

pvnick 13y ago

I very well could be, considering one of my first experiments was on maxpages also, but I can't remember the name unfortunately (pikachu something?). I remember how ultra-competitive it was to get people to upvote your website so it would get to the maxpages front page and that at one point all the front page links were pokemon websites.

kanzure 13y ago
I wonder if there's a safe way an insider from maxpages, coolfreewhatever, trident, geocities, etc. could provide this data maybe by email address without violating the privacy of everyone ever? I have the exact same story, including the hilarious pokemon websites from 2000-2003. Can't remember any of the urls. I don't need backups, just the urls.

aspensmonster 13y ago

http://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Own-Page---Kids/dp/0843174595/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1393364708&sr=8-2&keywords=how+to+make+your+own+webpage+for+kids http://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Own-Page---Kids/dp/084317459... 1998. Hell, I think I still have this book laying around somewhere. I got it at a book fair in elementary school and from then on out I was always making one stupid webpage or another. Until I discovered Java of course.

tracker1 13y ago
I feel old now.. in 1998, I was 24 and had been working as a web developer for a couple of years. I'd moved on from any thoughts of Netscape server-side dev, and was doing VBScript and JScript in classic ASP. JS was my favorite language back then, though dealing with MS COM collections was a pain. I remember using the 1x1 graphic a lot, combined with complex tables, and even other stuff. Of course, even before CSS, you could do a lot and at first I really didn't get the point of CSS... I think that IE6, not IE4 was the first good browser. Yeah, it was despised a half a decade later, but at the time it was the best available. IMHO the Netscape 4.0.x-4.2.x was probably the most horrible ever in terms of bugginess and imho solely responsible for IE's dominance. What we have today, even without the likes of jQuery is SO much better than the mid-late 90's.
- pjmlp 13y ago
  Same here, I was 22 and finishing my CS degree with lots of experience on side projects and ready to jump into the golden .COM days. Still after all these years, the scars earned in web development projects, make me jump of joy when I get to do native desktop stuff instead.
  - tracker1 13y ago
    That's funny, I actually really like web development... when it comes down to it, it's all hacking, only now you get better levels of abstraction. It's not nearly as bad as the bad old days so to speak, and a lot of things can be very clean and elegant.
    - pjmlp 13y ago
      I think one reason for me, is that I am way much better doing pure graphics coding for customs components, than trying to make a component out of <div/> coupled with CSS/JavaScript magic.
- HillRat 13y ago
  God, I started out with Perl-based CGI, NetObjects Fusion, and ATG Dynamo's early JSP implementation, back when being able to afford a SQL backend meant you were hot stuff. Kids today have it so easy. We had to code ISAPI filters, during packet storms, for bidirectional communication! And don't get me started on what we had to do when the bit buckets ran out of ones....
  - nasalgoat 13y ago
    I wrote an Atari 2600 cartridge auction/trading site in perl that was so popular, it caused my company's webserver - a large national ISP! - to slow to a crawl running all the CGI. This was pre-ebay, about 1995. Wish I had stuck with it in retrospect: ebay started very similarly.
mrspandex 13y ago
I still lend this book out to friends who want to learn HTML.

tfigueroa 13y ago

My thing was Dragon Ball Z sites. CGI/Perl running NewsPro, links to questionable RealMedia content. What a sucker I was! Good thing PHP came along and taught us all what true webmastery is.

georgiecasey 13y ago
with all the hate php gets now, people forget how it changed the game back at the turn if the century. it was so easy.

alttab 13y ago

Worms 2, tripod.com, paint shop pro. Can't stop me. SSI changed my life, and I coded a 50 page website in a textarea. on 28.8. In the snow. Without shoes. Not much has changed. I use vim now.